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© BILL CURRY A whale was floating off Port Maitland Beach on Monday, Sept. 29.
A dead whale was spotted floating in the water off Port Maitland Beach in Yarmouth County early Monday, Sept. 29.

But then later that day it was gone, leaving others who came out to the beach to catch a glimpse of it to wonder if it has just been a whale of a tale?

The whale was quite a distance from shore at low tide mid-morning when two officers from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans came out to inspect the situation. They assumed the whale would probably be washed onto shore by the higher tide later in the day.

A nearby resident of the beach, Bill Curry, told the Vanguard around 2:20 p.m. that it was still bobbing in the water away from the shoreline.

However, when the Vanguard went back around 4 p.m the whale was nowhere to be seen. The tide was high at the time.

Turns out as the tide came up the wind changed direction, from the east instead of the south. Curry told the Vanguard that the whale drifted far enough off shore that it went past the breakwater.

"We have not seen it since," he said on Tuesday morning.